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🌊 Hey! I’m Jolyn!

If you can’t already tell from the photo, I’m a huge fan of food from different cuisines and love to immerse myself in a variety of cultures! This was me in Suwon in Korea, trying pesto pasta from a fusion cafe. 

Coming from an international background, I travel often across Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia etc.) and enjoy learning about what are the differences in lifestyle and food. In Iyer’s (2000) article “Why We Travel”, he mentioned how the difference between a “tourist” and a “traveller” is in their assumptions. As the article is rather dated, our current society is highly globalised and digitalised — everyone can learn something new about a different culture or country and assumptions can be more easily debunked. I believe his argument may not stand as strongly, and needs more nuance to it. Perhaps both the tourist and traveller have ditched their assumptions, but is there something more to their mindset and appreciation that we have yet to discover?

This is why in this blog, I hope to discover the nuance between a traveller and tourist as I learn more about countries and culture. As an extrovert, I also love interacting with other people to learn about their lifestyles. And of course as someone with a sunny disposition, I will be writing about one of my dream travel locations — Okinawa, Japan! ☀ Its beautiful oceans and bright blue sky attracted me, which is why I am keen to learn more about the lifestyle and culture of people in Okinawa.



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